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Assume that the Supreme Court holds that Congress may legalize marijuana but ban marijuana ads, notwithstanding the commercial speech doctrine. Now Congress can enact a law that allows marijuana sales ...

The slippery slope argument is an argument that proceeds in stages, such as 'Accepting A means accepting B, and accepting B means accepting C...', and finally concludes, 'Therefore, A should not be ...

In the registration-to-confiscation scenario, only the latter two mechanisms seem fairly plausible to me; in other scenarios, others may be more plausible. And there are of course mechanisms that may ...